Album de poèmes tirés du Livre de jade
Artist: Lucien Pissarro (French, 1863-1944)
Publisher: Eragny Press, the Brook, Hammersmith, London, 1911
Author: Judith Gautier (French, 1845-1917)
Date: 1911
Dimensions:
box: 8 5/8 x 6 x 9/16 in. (219 x 152 x 15mm)
book: 7 5/8 x 5 1/8 in. (194 x 130mm)
page: 7 5/8 x 3 7/8 in. (194 x 98mm)
Medium: Original prints: 22 wood-engravings in color (engraved by Lucien and Esther Pissarro), incl. ornaments and printer's device
Text: letterpress (typeface: Brook Type)
Paper: Japanese vellum
Classification: Books
Credit Line: Frederick B. and Kate L. Shoemaker Fund
Object number: 1984.16
Label Text:Lucien Pissarro, the son of the Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro, settled in England in 1890. Four years later he, and his wife Esther, established the Eragny Press (named for the Pissarro home in Normandy) in their Hammersmith home called "The Brook" (the name used for Pissarro's type face). Over the course of twenty years, the published thirty-two books. As can be seen by this delightful book, Eragny Press books were usually small in format, delicately colorful, and tastefully decorative. The elegant design of THE BOOK OF JADE, a collection of brief poems inspired by the beauty found in the Far East, is as alluring and refined as treasured Chinese silk.
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